It had been about 2 months since my wife logged into her account, she logs in and is greated with a dialogue box Join Flikr or lose years of photos. No option to download what she already had, she was forced to pay or lose everything. They had suddenly decided to lower storage for all free accounts. This in itself is not exactly bad business, but there should have been an option to at least download what was over and move on, instead of forcing a payment. I consider that a scam and fits the definition of ransomware quite well. Otherwise... great service until this I suppose.